KiCad 5 #1 New Project & Schematic Capture
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2019
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This is a tutorial for a first time user of #KiCad 5.
This part discusses how to create a new project and draw a 1-page schematic.
This is part of a KiCad 5 tutorial playlist: • KiCad 5 Tutorial
Source files from this tutorial: github.com/johnwinans/2044-br...
Music used in this video (Vibe Tracks, Alternate) was downloaded from the RUclips Audio Library: ruclips.net/user/audiolibrary_...
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Well, this playlist is invaluable! I attended Altium Designer a few years ago and I experienced a really good course over there. The way John explains KiCad here is somehow more comprehensive, more fun, and more informative. Thank's John.
Thanks for such a kind review!
Finally a KiCad 5 Tutorial for those of us running on Linux (Ubuntu). Excellent work, John !!
Thanks for taking the time to show how to use the software in real life.
Thank you for stopping by!
This series is fantastic. Thank you! In just a few days I have gone from knowing nothing about KiCad 5.0.2, to making fabrication-ready PCB designs. I am using Debain GNU/Linux 10 "Buster". I can learn something new in the video, pause it, try it out in KiCad, then resume the video. I have never learned something this complicated in such a short period of time. You are an excellent Instructor. Well done!
Brilliant intro. Off to watch some more of your vids in this series. Thanks!
And thank you!
Direct and no fluff. Well done.
Really like your style of explianing. Actually one of the best. And iv'e seen plenty.
It helped me a lot John, thanks for your assistants.
Hi John! It's gonna be great! Very well explained, the rhythm is perfect to beginners. Thanks for sharing.
Great tutorial I was fighting with KiCad for an hours and then go here and get all that I want for the beginning ! Thanks a lot man !
Excellent tutorial. I learned a lot even though I am a complete begineer
Glad it was helpful!
Well done. Pace and explanations are much better than typical KiCad videos.
I'm very glad I found your tutorial series! I wish I had found it before I starting using Kicad 5 in earnest; I've been muddling through, but I'm delighted every time one of your videos answers a question I've had about how stuff is _supposed_ to work.
Just found you channel. Really like your videos. Have been looking at other channels but like yours the best. Clear, concise and not to long. Thanks for your work.
John - Great work, thank you! Excellent videos, no-nonsense, right balance of useful information, tips and tricks. I started watching on Saturday with no knowledge of KiCad, by Sunday afternoon I had a simple 20 components design ready and submitted. Got my finished PCBs delivered on Wednesday, and an assembled device by Wednesday night. Can't wait to start watching the OpenSCAD tutorial next :)
What board fab did you use?
Thanks man for the tutorial! I'm following the playlist!
I’m moving into kicad from eagle and this is helping me tremendously. Thank you very much.
Very good and elaborate tutorial. I am loving it.
this was great. looking forward to watching the rest of your series. thank you for your time and effort in explaining it. i was worried about learning it coming from eagle but your style is very good.
Thanks for your kind words!
I just found your KiCad tutorial series and I've enjoyed watching everyone of them, easy to follow along and understand. This lowers the bar for anyone wanting to start using KiCad!
Hey! Thank you for kind review. 😊
Excelent work John's, by far the best Kicad tutorial I've seen... thanks!
Thank you for your kind words!
I was trying to use Kicad a long time but, in my language it is so complicated to find out videos about.
thanks for sharing.
Good Tutorial. Fast, direct and to the point. Just the way I like 'em! ;-)
Really clear and well-presented tutorial John. It makes a nice change to see the Linux version too! Many thanks for your time and effort.
Thanks!
Great tutorial, struggling with other tutorials, noticed they were for older versions of KiCad, found yours and I am up and running in 20 min, going to work through all your vids as I am completely new to this, but need to develop a board to be manufactured. Thanks!
Glad it helped!
Very clear and thorough. thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
In my opinion if someone wants to place tutorial in youtube should look yours and follow here regarding tune of voice, clarification, understandable and so on. Thank you for your effort to teach people who browsing youtube to find a good tutorial.
Thank you for such kind words!
@@JohnsBasement Hi John, in some of your video i have noticed that you are not happy with price for parts. If you like you can try aliexpress (china) or taydaelectronics( Thai), electronic goldmine in USA
Thank you for this great tutorial. Very straightforward.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for this tutorial John , have a nice day.
You're welcome. You have a nice day too!
@@JohnsBasement After spend a day looking on your channel , i found many cool things i've been looking for like C++ . Again , thank you ! I wish i knew your channel sooner .
thanks a lot for this beginner friendly tutorial series. thumbs up for you
You are most welcome!
Excellent thanks. I have been using Eagle on a few simple projects, so interesting to see how KiCad compares.
Very welcome!
Hi, John, It do help me a lot, Thanks !
Excellent! Very useful indeed! Thanks!
Good concise presentation. Thank you.
Thanks!
Thank you very much, very good explanation!
Good explaining, thanks for this useful playlist.
You are welcome!
Great job. thanks a lot for the tutorial!!
Holy wire!! clean tutorial...I subbed. Am In...thanks.
I don't use Linux, but all this teaching is usable to KiCAD for Windows too.
Nice job, John ! Congrats and thanks a lot !
You are welcome!
John, thank you for such an awesome series! The content is great, the audio quality superb, and the narration could not be better. I would not be surprised to hear that you are/were a professional broadcaster, though not sure why a broadcaster would have the tech knowledge you possess :). I haven't done any (hobbyist) board design in over 30 years. Had the need recently, and with the abundance of cheap places to get boards done, it's definitely time for me to get back into it. A quick Google search for the best free programs led me to KiCad, and a RUclips search led me here. Everything I could possibly need to learn KiCad was right here. Great series! Again, thank you!
Wow! 😎
Thank you for such a kind review.
I hope the rest of it lives up to your expectations.
Great tutorial! Thanks
Thank you for the tutorial.
Thank you John! This is great.
You are most welcome!
Thanks for this... I'm just starting out with KiCad. @19:00 Might be worth mentioning 'Annotate'
Perhaps...but automatic annotation is a can o'worms in itself... That I give a good going over a little later on.
Thank you so much for this useful tutorial
You're wwlcome! 😀
This tutorial is very good. The other tutorials use the older versions of KiCad on Windows and they're more like journalists. The way you explain things is more communicative. Thanks a lot
You are welcome!
Thank you So much, this was helpful !
You are welcome very much!!
Kicad v6 is out woop
Happy New Year!!! 😀
I have been looking for this! I just started with V. (5.1.5)-3 and all the tutorials are for V 4.x (even the manual from KiCad) everything is fine until you get to Libraries. Thank You for the Great Video!
Glad I could help!
Great Lecture! I
good tutorial and very clear
yes it is!
This is great !!
very useful no bs thanks!
Fantastic video, I'm gonna watch the whole series. I run windows, hopefully it won't make a difference. I really learned a lot because you explained things in a way I could understand. Had to pause a few times to work out what some of the actions were, but all good.
Thank you for such kind words. As far as I know, the windows versions are very much the same.
What everyonevl will notice is the differences in menus between KiCad's released versions. You will notice that I upgrade as the videos progress.
@@JohnsBasement Yes versions, that would have been my other thought. I'm watching the PCB Layout video at present, the trickiest one so far, but I'll get there. I wrote to digikey.co.uk earlier today telling them they had a new customer based on my watching your tutorial videos. Keep up the great work it really is appreciated.
perfect explanation -.
John great work. This tutorial help me become one step closer to becoming an electronics engineer . Thank you . Add some ad , i will watch it . This is the only way that i can repay you haha.
Thank you! Tell your friends! 😀
No problem . Consider it done 👌
thank you, good sir!
No worries!
For someone giving a tutorial on electrical schematics to say move this to the left when moving something to the right... it just makes me chuckle.
😂... I forgot about that. It is tough to think & explain at the same time. When I was editing that i decided to let it go... I hope it didn't confuse anyone. 😜
@@JohnsBasement I'm sure most people didn't notice... and probably many of them don't know left from right... so, likely not an issue. I just thought it was funny. I thought it something like a brain surgeon calling a vein an artery... and then saying "now let's cut open that skull, shall we?" LOL
HiKad..Mmm...:) it would be sort-a nice when moving resistors around and when i am in a rush, on a single click turn off moving the resistor R value and just move the small resistor component box itself. Thanks a lot...:) great kicad stuff..
I just moved from eagle to kicad. Seems like this is very user friendly to use. BTW thanks for the tutorial.
You're welcome!
Hi John
Thanks for this really helpful tutorial. Will you add a chapter about the symbol library editor, please? Most stuff you find is for Kicad 4, and the library editor has quite changed.
Sure! I just posted part 11 on creating a new library and creating a new symbol in it.
I still recommend _Digi-Key’s KiCad tutorial_ ruclips.net/video/gIf8sdd-JL4/видео.html for starting out with KiCad, but your series is surely *the best follow-up* and a *must* for everyone who wants to delve a little deeper into designing circuits and PCB’s using KiCad. You have a talent of showing us what KiCad _really_ offers, from a practical perspective, and the pitfalls to avoid.
I really recommend working through all of these, and I bet you’ll discover pearls of knowledge you didn’t know about. Here’s a link to this series’ playlist: ruclips.net/video/9hcQQQxoRl0/видео.html
Thanks a bundle for taking the effort, John, and please keep ’em coming!
I came here because Eagle sucks. Thank you for these tutorials man!
😂... So, what was it about Eagle that turned you off?
Nice and very helpful intro to the new KiCad. Question: Why is there a directory called "2043-example.pro" inside a directory of the same name? I'm confused by that.
Well, technically the are not the same. The directory is 2043-example and the project file inside that directory is called 2043-example.pro.
Even so, the two are essentially the same because that is the default for how KiCad names them unless you override it by NOT selecting the 'create directory' option when you create the project.
It makes sense for them all to be similarly named because a project is a set of files containing your project definitions, schematic(s) and PCB files. Each of the files represents a different aspect of the same thing.
In more advanced (multi-sheet) projects, there will be more files representing the other sheets. When you generate gerber files for a PCB manufacturer there will be even more files. I think of that top level directory as the thing that represents the project and all of its files. The files and other directories that are in that top directory are then the parts of the project (and yes some have somewhat rendundant-looking names by default.)
Note that you can create a directory of any name and create a project within that directory if you want. Or you can create as I did and then rename the directory afterwards to whatever you want. I do NOT recommend renaming the .pro, .sch, and other files within that project directory that KiCad generates for you. Even if it APPEARS to work, it may not continue to do so over time as you upgrade KiCad versions.
Hi john....thanks for the great tutorial. I have a request from you. Can u pls make a video on how to choose the component out of so many available options for prototype work. I am new to hardware design, it will be very helpful if you could do it. Have a nice day. :)
This is a very broad question. Can you narrow it down to, maybe, the types of components? And maybe the criteria most important to you?
What sorts of things do you want to try to make?
Ehh... Wait a minute. Do you mean what actual components to buy or do mean what ones to use from the 'place a component' chooser?
Hello, is it possible make a templae in library like u modified resistors, if u use always like this i think its better spend less time every new design, what do you think about it ? Thank you for great content.
Yeah. See part 11. KiCad 5 Tutorial: ruclips.net/p/PL3by7evD3F51fKkyrUbH-PCdwPCWc9F8a
Hi John, can you explain more about clearances and how do we change for example 3d model Led colors or resistor color band for example do we able to change in 3d model view same Led with yellow red green etc.
Thanks.
These are some good questions!
As for clearance, I'd need to know more about the context of your question. Are you talking about courtyards? DRC rules related to them?
As for the 3D models, I regret that I do not have the experience to give them a respectable answer. I know of things like the discussion here: forum.kicad.info/t/i-created-a-new-kicad3dmodels-library/5151
@John's Basement I will give shout on that link.
There are too many clearance inputs between pads routes or even edges. I would like to know which one which. Where do we change them all?
In your last video, you said "I don't do any etching" did you tried any CNC milling device? I may buy a new device. Can you recommend one? Should I try a cheap Chinese device and milling with wet (Water) milling in order to get better route tracks? Thank you, I appreciate a lot.
The main way to manage net clearances is in the PCB editor's BoardSetup->DesignRules->NetCLasses panel. You can create new net classes and set their sizes and clearances in there. I have yet to figure out if/how to create/override a set of clearance rules on a per-footprint basis (like I can with Altium.) Let me know if I overlooked that somewhere!
The board edge clearance is a combination of the track (or polygon) clearance and the thickness of the lines that you draw on the edge-cuts layer. I discuss that in here: ruclips.net/video/X86HUpOr_g8/видео.html
I've never tried CNC board milling. It seems promising for 1- and 2-layer boards. But I have been doing mostly 4-layer boards these days with 6-mil traces & clearances... so I have yet to get any experience with the CNC method.
This is the first I have heard of water milling a PCB. Please post a blog of your experiences with these things!
@@JohnsBasement Thank you. I appreciate it a lot. Wet CNC milling Just like here CNC device price too much though ruclips.net/video/sHO_rCXzI3M/видео.html
@@pettypavlow8330 Yeah that looks cool. Maybe some day.
Ok, so first video in, brain not broken... Hmm, brain NOT broken... I remember how to pick a part, place wires, use keys such as R, M, C, G and brain not hurting... Well, that's not normal, brain is suppose to hurt and I'm supposed to give up at this point... Must be a 'Fluke' (haha! Oh shizzle, now I'm making bad electronics jokes, that proves brain is neither broke nor malfunctioning! I'm scared!... Lets see how my brain does with lesson two.
Hey John, the bit I'm struggling with is when you open up a yellow pages with commands. I'm using windows 10, do I have to do this, and if so how?
Those are command-line terminals running Unix/Linux shells.
You can navigate around with a GUI file navigator if you prefer.
What is ultimately important is that you understand what files are created by the KiCad tools and where KiCad expects to find them.
@john's Basement, are you planning to make this kind of tutorial for KiCad v6? You have made almost all inclusive v5 tutorial (including tips and tricks), and I have promoted your playlist in KiCad's user forum many times, but now people are looking for v6 help. Basically, you could redo all these videos with v6. Or aren't you using v6 still? :)
Yeah v6 has been on my todo list for a while. Not enough hours in the day to accomplish everything I want.
What,, specifically, are you looking for as far as 'updates'?
@@JohnsBasement , by saying "redo all these videos", I meant that directly 😁. I took two days off, and watched your v5 playlist till the end. No more help ever needed afterwards. I wish newcomers to v6 would have such intence lecture like this playlist. I will try to watch your videos at high rate again and make a keynotes, but would not bet I will.. as I remember, the types of labels, common hotkeys, multisheet design, erc - drc, working with libraries, adding digikey library was the point of highest value (not many changes in v6, really). One video (the first) would be on how to migrate from v5 to v6 (env var changes, paths to 3d models..).
Are you already using v6 (just curious)?
On the other hand, there exists a yearly release policy from the release of v6.0, and v7.0 is planned in January of 2023, so half a year is left for v6.0 existence...
Good evening, John.
I am a newbie in terms of KiCAD and even more running it for the very first time. I THINK the installation went well, although I doubt I missed a few tips on how to get it to work.
To put you in context, I am running the OS X platform (10.12.6) and it seems I have no libraries installed at all. I just don't see how I can draw a schematic diagram if I don't have parts. Can you please give me a starting point so I can get started? Hint: When I click on the Symbol Icon, my cursor does not change (no pen) and as soon as I click on the page, a pop-up windows appears and the title says .. « Chose Symbol (0 items loaded) » !!
Thank you for your help. I'm at loss here. Have a nice day and take care
Hopefully there are some OSX people that can chime in here?
From this, however, I suspect you installed only the cad package & not any libraries. They are separate things. Go back to the downloads area or your package manager and look for the keycad footprints and component/symbol libraries.
Hey, John !
I finally manage to install the libraries. Like you suspected, no libraries were installed, causing this issue to happen. I am now slowly learning to use this CAD application. Is it better than EasyEDA ? Only time will tell for me. Although I would like to give KiCAD a fighting chance, EasyEDA has great features and I'm starting to really dig this one. A great feature is that you can import your locally generated Gerber file directly to JLCPCB and have it done at la lightning speed, but that's only good if you want to have your PCB done my JLC. Others prefer PCBWay or else.
Thank you for the followup and have a great day !
@@oncledan8509 oshpark takes kicad direct. I'm sure others will do the same soon. I never used EasyEDA. After KiCon and hearing that there is funding comming in to support KiCad, I suspect it will progress with features o'plenty. ...I just hope some suits don't find a way to mess it up. 💩
How do I solve this problem? Symbol L1 pad ~ Not found in footprint Custom Components:T-68-6 CT.
I can't know without the component nor the footprint. But if you google the error message you find this:
forum.kicad.info/t/pcbnew-error-reading-netlist-pad-not-found-in-footprint/11035
The text suggests your are using a custom component, I'm guessing you named a pin ~ and used a footprint that has no such named pin. You need to change one to match the other.
@@JohnsBasement This just gets too complicated. The developers should make things easier for the user. Maybe one day they will get there eventually but for now this does not help me.
@@Berghiker I'm sure you can ask them on the kicad website. But it does seem reasonable to me for the pins in our symbols have the same numbers/identifiers as the footprint pads that they have to mate with.
@@JohnsBasement It matches the one on the footprint but still can't find it. The same error shows up. Can you design a new custom made symbol with custom made footprint and make a video on that please?
@@JohnsBasement How do I put a custom symbol in Custom Components Library?
How applicable is this tutorial for Kicad6?
Close enough for me to hold off on re-recording it.
Main issues are some menus are re-arranged & that hot keys have been made standard between the schematic & PCB editors.
@@JohnsBasement Well, I ended with installing V5 because I'm on Windows7. Your tutorial is well explained, easy to follow and understand. Thanks. S
@@suadcokljat1045 I'm glad I could help.